Bamboo rice. The rice into the fragrant bamboo bamboo, water will be filled with water after the mouth of the tube tightly plugged barbecue. When the bamboo tube surface burns, the rice is also cooked. The rice is particularly fragrant.
(2) Dai family bamboo buildings. Dai villages are in the dam near the water, where the bamboo around the green shade of the place, there must be a village. Bamboo buildings can avoid humidity, heat. The Dai bamboo house is full of tropical rural flavor, walk up the wooden stairs and sit on the golden-colored gabion mats on the lanai, you can watch the harmonious life scene in the village. The hospitable hosts will bring out a small gabion table with glutinous rice wrapped in banana leaves and rice wine served in bamboo tubes to entertain the guests.
(3) Catching the Pendulum. The Dai people call all festivals big and small "Pendulum". According to the original meaning of the Dai language, the Catch Pendulum is a grand festival or gathering. The stalls on the market are full of food and supplies, especially the Dai's distinctive tube handkerchiefs, silver hand jewelry, soft earrings, etc. are more attractive to tourists.
(Four) Water Festival. Every year the Dai calendar June 12 (7 days after the Qingming Festival) began for the Dai New Year, for 3 to 5 days. The festival is held from early in the morning to pile up sand, splash water, throw bags and race dragon boat and other activities. Among them, the water splashing is the one with the most national characteristics. This is a youthful carnival for men and women. Early in the morning, flowers are first picked for the flower house. Then, fresh water is thrown on the statue of Buddha to wash the dust. Then everyone splashes water on each other, often soaking wet. The Dai believe that pouring water on each other is a blessing, a way to get rid of diseases and to fulfill the festivals. Therefore, pouring a lot of water is a sign of friendship. The splashed are returned with a smile. This playfulness, until the water in the street until the river.
Ethnic Profile
The Dai in China are mainly distributed in Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, Dehong Dai Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture, Gengma Dai Wa Autonomous Prefecture and Menglian Dai Lahu Wa Autonomous Prefecture in Yunnan Province. The rest are scattered in more than 30 counties in Yunnan Province, including Xinping, Yuanjiang and Jinping. They live in the plains between the mountains and have a subtropical climate. According to the statistics of the fifth national census in 2000, the population of the Dai ethnic group is 1,158,989. The Dai language, belonging to the Zhuang-Dong branch of the Zhuang-Tibetan language family, is spoken in the Zhuang-Dai language branch. The Dai have a pinyin script, which varies from place to place, and a script reform was carried out in the 1950s.
The Dai people call themselves "Dai tithe", "Dai Ya", "Dai Na", "Dai Lien", etc. In the Han and Jin dynasties, they were called "Dai tithe", "Dai Ya", "Dai Na", "Dai Lien", etc. In the Han and Jin dynasties, they were called "Dai Ting" and "Dai Ting". Han Jin called "Dian Yue", "Shan", "trespassing", "bureaucracy" or "Hat Bong". "Hat Bong". In the Tang and Song dynasties, it was called "Golden Tooth", "Black Tooth", "Mangban", "White", etc. In the Yuan dynasty, it was called "White". In the Yuan Dynasty, "Baiyi" was also written as "Baiyi", "Baiyi", "Baiyi", etc. After the Qing Dynasty, it was called "Paiyi". After the Qing Dynasty, it was called "Pendulum Yi". After the liberation, according to the will of the people of this nation, the name Dai.
The Dai have a long history, as far back as the first century A.D., the Han historical records on the Dai ancestors, 109 A.D., Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty to develop the Southwest Barbarians, the establishment of Yizhou County, the Dai area is the southwest border of Yizhou County. In 69 A.D., Yongchang County was established. The Dai area was under the jurisdiction of Yongchang County. At that time, the chiefs of the Dai ancestors sent emissaries with musicians and magicians to Luoyang, the capital of the Eastern Han Dynasty, to dedicate music and perform novel techniques. The Dai were so appreciated and welcomed by the Eastern Han Dynasty that they were given gold seals and purple ribbons, and their chiefs were named "Han Da Du Lieutenants", thus establishing a political affiliation with the Eastern Han Dynasty. From the eighth century to the thirteenth century A.D., the Dai ethnic area was successively subordinate to the Yunnan Nanzhao Meng's regime and the Dali Duan's regime established mainly by the Yi and Bai ethnic groups. In the Yuan Dynasty, the Dai ethnic area was subordinate to the Yunnan Province. The Yuan Dynasty began to implement the Tusi system in the ethnic areas. In the western Yunnan Dai ethnic area set gold teeth Xuandu Si, jurisdiction Dehong and other places Dai, in the southern Dai ethnic area set Che (car) Li military and civilian general administration, jurisdiction Xishuangbanna and other places. Ming Dynasty, and consolidated on the basis of the Yuan Dynasty, set up in the western Lu Chuan Ping Myanmar Xuanfu Division; set up in the south of the car military and civilian Xuanwei Division, and set up a smaller Tusi District, the full implementation of the Tusi system. In the majority of Dai areas appointed hereditary Secretary of the soil, the soil official, greatly strengthened the Yuan, Ming Dynasty on the Dai area of the rule. During the Qing Dynasty, the old system of Yuan and Ming was basically inherited, but the policy of "returning land to the stream" was implemented in the Dai areas in the mainland where the socio-economic situation was more advanced, and the stream officials were appointed to carry out direct rule. During the reign of the Kuomintang government, the establishment of counties and bureaus in the frontier Dai areas, continue to implement the policy of national oppression, deepening the suffering of the Dai people.